# User Name "Oh!" moments **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 1, 2008, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/user-name-oh-moments/458453 "2008-08-01T03:01:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![nd\_n8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/439d5e/32.png) [@nd\_n8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nd_n8)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2008, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/user-name-oh-moments/458453/41 "2008-08-05T13:50:43Z")
[QUOTE=Merhouse] I did too :smack: And while I’m at it, it was only a couple of weeks ago I found out that **Inigo Montoya** isn’t a completely random but cool user name. Well, it IS still cool, it’s just not completely random 🙂 [/QUOTE] But he is. ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2008, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/user-name-oh-moments/458453/42 "2008-08-05T14:11:11Z")
[QUOTE=TroubleAgain] Not a poster, but their pet. A conure named “Onan” who used to belong to **Paul in Saudi**. “Why did he call his bird that? I mean, Onan isn’t exactly a famous biblical character. He’s known for defying God and spilling his seed on the ground…OHHHH!” :smack: [/QUOTE] :smack: :smack: :smack: - now it makes sense to me too! ---
**Author:** ![Bookkeeper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bookkeeper/32/281_2.png) [@Bookkeeper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bookkeeper)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2008, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/user-name-oh-moments/458453/43 "2008-08-05T15:33:00Z")
I watched “Clerks” a couple of weeks ago and realized where **Happy Scrappy Hero Pup** ’s name comes from. ---
**Author:** ![TroubleAgain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e480ec/32.png) [@TroubleAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroubleAgain)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2008, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/user-name-oh-moments/458453/44 "2008-08-05T15:52:02Z")
[QUOTE=Mama Zappa] :smack: :smack: :smack: - now it makes sense to me too! [/QUOTE] Glad I wasn’t alone in the :smack:-iness. ---
**Author:** ![Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freddy_the_Pig)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2008, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/user-name-oh-moments/458453/45 "2008-08-05T15:52:28Z")
When I encounter these names outside of the Dope, I get all discombobulated. “Dexter Haven . . . Dexter Haven . . . I know that name–but why? I’ve never seen this movie before. I must have seen the actor in another movie . . . no wait, it’s not an actor, it’s a character . . . WTF? . . . oh duh, it’s a Doper.” :smack: I dream of people stumbling across **Freddy the Pig** in a second-hand children’s bookstore, but it probably never happens. ---
**Author:** ![UncaStuart](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/uncastuart/32/404_2.png) [@UncaStuart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncaStuart)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2008, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/user-name-oh-moments/458453/46 "2008-08-05T17:13:57Z")
[QUOTE=Freddy the Pig] I dream of people stumbling across **Freddy the Pig** in a second-hand children’s bookstore, but it probably never happens. [/QUOTE] OT: Because I once played Freddy the Pig in a summer school play adapted from _Freddy the Detective_ back in the 50s, I had a bit of nostalgia when I saw that my grandkids had a set of Freddy books when I visited them this last spring. ---
**Author:** ![Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freddy_the_Pig)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2008, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/user-name-oh-moments/458453/47 "2008-08-05T17:54:36Z")
[QUOTE=UncaStuart] Because I once played Freddy the Pig in a summer school play adapted from _Freddy the Detective_ back in the 50s . . . [/QUOTE] Oh my God. You’re my idol. ---
**Author:** ![MHaye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bbe5ce/32.png) [@MHaye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MHaye)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2008, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/user-name-oh-moments/458453/48 "2008-08-05T18:31:50Z")
[QUOTE=Helena] I read the Lensmen series a few years ago and was pleasantly surprised to run across **Qadgop the Mercotan**. [/QUOTE] _ **Ah HA!** _. Ever since my fiancee first pointed me at the dope (just over four years ago) I’ve been trying to remember (without googling) which SF series I read in my youth this name came from. Thanks, **Helena**. For my own minor revelation moment, the poster **ShadowFacts** may well have named himself after a horse. A fictional one. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2008, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/user-name-oh-moments/458453/49 "2008-08-05T18:37:03Z")
[QUOTE=Marley23] That’d be _The Philadelphia Story_. Come to think of it, **Dex** and I probably share an appreciation for Cary Grant. [/QUOTE] Marley23, it could have been that lesser Sinatra, Grace Kelly and Bing Crosby Vehicle, “High Society”. The two movies also gave us the source of the name of poster **Tracy Lord** , not the teen porn star. [QUOTE=Jamaika a jamaikaiaké] Also, **RTFirely** is Rufus T. Firefly, Goucho Marx’s character in Duck Soup. I love that movie. And it took me over a year to get it. [/QUOTE] I never made that connection, thank you for that. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2008, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/user-name-oh-moments/458453/50 "2008-08-05T18:56:25Z")
[QUOTE=What Exit?] Marley23, it could have been that lesser Sinatra, Grace Kelly and Bing Crosby Vehicle, “High Society”. The two movies also gave us the source of the name of poster **Tracy Lord** , not the teen porn star. [/QUOTE] According to Wikipedia, High Society is based on The Philadelphia Story, so that would be the same source material. That’s not the kind of name two writers come up with by coincidence. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2008, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/user-name-oh-moments/458453/51 "2008-08-05T19:04:02Z")
[QUOTE=What Exit?] Marley23, it could have been that lesser Sinatra, Grace Kelly and Bing Crosby Vehicle, “High Society”. The two movies also gave us the source of the name of poster **Tracy Lord** , not the teen porn star. [/QUOTE] > [@Marley23](#): > > According to Wikipedia, High Society is based on The Philadelphia Story, so that would be the same source material. That’s not the kind of name two writers come up with by coincidence. _point to Post #27_ _gently coughs_ ---
**Author:** ![ShadowFacts](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shadowfacts/32/2934_2.png) [@ShadowFacts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShadowFacts)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2008, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/user-name-oh-moments/458453/52 "2008-08-05T19:17:13Z")
[QUOTE=MHaye] For my own minor revelation moment, the poster **ShadowFacts** may well have named himself after a horse. A fictional one. [/QUOTE] _stamps hoof once for “yes”_ ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2008, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/user-name-oh-moments/458453/53 "2008-08-05T19:41:01Z")
[QUOTE=jayjay] _point to Post #27_ _gently coughs_ [/QUOTE] I saw the post. I just didn’t look up the movie and make the connection. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2008, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/user-name-oh-moments/458453/54 "2008-08-05T20:03:39Z")
[QUOTE=ShadowFacts] _stamps hoof once for “yes”_ [/QUOTE] this had me giggling. I always wondered about **Qadgop**. What an interesting thread this is. ---
**Author:** ![UncaStuart](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/uncastuart/32/404_2.png) [@UncaStuart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncaStuart)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2008, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/user-name-oh-moments/458453/55 "2008-08-05T20:06:41Z")
[QUOTE=Freddy the Pig] Oh my God. You’re my idol. [/QUOTE] 😃 I still have the deerstalker cap my grandmother fabricated out of two baseball caps and an old Pendleton shirt. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2008, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/user-name-oh-moments/458453/56 "2008-08-05T20:07:26Z")
[QUOTE=jayjay] _point to Post #27_ _gently coughs_ [/QUOTE] Sorry about that but I saw it after I started my post and I was also adding more details and the factoid that we have a poster named for Tracy Lord. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2008, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/user-name-oh-moments/458453/57 "2008-08-05T20:12:01Z")
Not a big deal, guys. I just wanted to note that I did mention it. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2008, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/user-name-oh-moments/458453/58 "2008-08-06T22:59:58Z")
[Quote=Cisco] Watched This Island Earth a few years ago and one of the characters was Cal Meacham. [/quote] [QUOTE=Sublight] Although I recall **Cal** saying at one point that it was just a coincidence. [/QUOTE] Maybe you’re thinking of the fact that the screen name of **CalMeacham** ’s wife is **Pepper Mill** , which I assumed was just a reference to [something like this](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Peppermill.jpg) but actually comes from the fact that the name is derived from the “your soap opera character” or “your porn star alias” game of taking the name of your first pet (Pepper, in her case) and the street (Mill) on which you (she) grew up. ---
**Author:** ![FatBaldGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecd19e/32.png) [@FatBaldGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FatBaldGuy)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2008, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/user-name-oh-moments/458453/59 "2008-08-06T23:49:25Z")
I was reading a thread here on the Dope a few months back and someone commented that when Harpo Marx toured Russia, his name in the cryllic alphabet looked something like Xapno Mpkcs. In his autobiography there is a chapter called Exapno Mapcase, Secret Agent. ---
**Author:** ![Kyrie\_Eleison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kyrie_eleison/32/7682_2.png) [@Kyrie\_Eleison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyrie_Eleison)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2008, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/user-name-oh-moments/458453/60 "2008-08-07T01:00:30Z")
[QUOTE=nd\_n8] Now I understand, it’s French… **Mange Tout** [/QUOTE] I don’t speak French, but I still read it this way when I first saw it. Babelfish tells me it means “eat all,” but I will defy the mission of this messageboard and stick with my mental image of someone extolling the benefits of mange. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/user-name-oh-moments/458453.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/user-name-oh-moments/458453.md?page=4)